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 USS Anzio (CG-68) - Definition 

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USS Anzio sails past the Statue of Liberty
Career USN Jack
Ordered: 16 April 1987
Laid down: 21 August 1989
Launched: 2 November 1990
Commissioned: 10 February 1992
Decommissioned:
Status: Active in service as of 2005.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 9,600 tons
Length: 567 ft
Beam: 55 ft
Draught: 33 ft
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp
Speed: 30+ knots
Range:
Complement: 387 officers and enlisted
Armament: 2 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 122 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, 8 x AGM-84 Harpoon missiles
2 x 5 in, 2 x 25 mm, 2–4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS
2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft: 2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Motto: Stand and Fight


USS Anzio (CG-68), named for the site of a beachhead invasion of Italy by Allied troops from 22 January to 23 May 1944, is a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi on 21 August 1989, launched on 2 November 1990 and commissioned on 2 May 1992. Anzio operates out of Norfolk in Virginia.

The ship is named for the city of Anzio in Italy, the site of an Allied amphibious assuault during Operation Shingle as part of the Italian Campaign of World War II.

In 2004, Anzio participated at the annual Fleet Week in New York City.

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Crest of USS Anzio

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.

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Ticonderoga-class cruiser
Ticonderoga | Yorktown | Vincennes | Valley Forge | Thomas S. Gates | Bunker Hill | Mobile Bay | Antietam | Leyte Gulf | San Jacinto | Lake Champlain | Philippine Sea | Princeton | Normandy | Monterey | Chancellorsville | Cowpens | Gettysburg | Chosin | Hue City | Shiloh | Anzio | Vicksburg | Lake Erie | Cape St. George | Vella Gulf | Port Royal

List of cruisers of the United States Navy


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